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9. O Lord, our Lord, how excellent is thy name

in all the earth.

SECOND MORNING.

Morning Prayer.

PSALM IX.

This Psalm was probably compofed by David on occafion of fome victories which he gained over the neighbouring nations, after God had exalted him to be King in Sion; for in v. xi. Sion is mentioned as being now in the hands of Ifrael.

1. I WILL praise thee O Lord, with my whole heart; I will shew forth all thy marvellous works. 2. I will be glad and rejoice in thee, I will fing unto thy name, O thou most high.

3. For mine enemies were turned back, they fell and perished at thy prefence.

4. Verily thou didst maintain my right and my cause; thou didst sit on the throne, judging right. 5. Thou didst rebuke the heathen, and destroy the wicked, and haft blotted out their name for ever and ever,

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6. The defolations of the enemy were brought to a perpetual end; their cities thou didst destroy, even their memorial is perished.

7. But the Lord shall reign for ever; he hath prepared his throne for judgment.

8. And he shall judge the world in righteoufness, in uprightness shall he minister judgment unto the people.

9. The Lord also will be a refuge for the oppressed; a refuge in times of trouble.

10. And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee; for thou Lord haft not forsaken them that feek thee.

II. Sing ye unto the Lord, who dwelleth in Sion; declare his doings among the people.

12. For he that maketh inquisition for blood, remembereth them, he forgetteth not the cry of the humble :

13. "Have mercy upon me, O Lord, confider " my trouble, which I fuffer of them that hate me, "thou that lifteft me up from the gates of death:

14. "That I may shew forth all thy praise in the " gates of the daughters of Sion ; that I may re" joice in thy salvation."

15. The nations are funk down in the pit that they made; in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.

16. The Lord is made known; he hath executed judgment; the wicked was snared in the work of his own hands.

17. The wicked shall return to the grave; and all the nations that forget God.

18. For the needy shall not always be forgotten; the hope of the afflicted shall not perish for ever. 19. Arife, O Lord, let not man prevail; let the heathen be judged in thy fight.

20. Put them in fear, O Lord, that the nations may know themselves to be but men.

PSALM X.

A description of the infolence of wicked men, when in power and authority.

1. WHY standest thou afar off, O Lord; why hidest thou thyself in needful times of trouble ?

2. By the pride of the wicked the poor are perfecuted; they are taken in the crafty wiliness that they have imagined.

3. For the wicked boasteth of his hearts defire ; and the needy of gain blesseth himfelf.

4. The wicked, in the pride of his countenance, contemneth the Lord, "God enquireth not," " he " is not," are all his thoughts.

5. His ways always profper, thy judgments are far from him; as for all his enemies, he breathes fury against them.

6. He hath faid in his heart, I shall not be moved; I shall never be in adversity.

7. His mouth is full of curfing, deceit, and fraud; under his tongue is mischief and vanity.

8. He fitteth in the lurking places of the villages; in secret places doth he murder the innocent; his eyes are privily set against the poor.

9. He lieth in wait, secretly as a lion in his den; he lieth in wait to spoil the poor.

10. He doth spoil the poor, when he draweth him into his net; he stoopeth down and croucheth and even a multitude of the poor falleth.

11. He faith in his heart, "God hath forgotten, " he hideth his face, he will never fee it."

12. Arife O Lord, O God lift up thine hand ; forget not the humble.

13. Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath faid in his heart, thou wilt not enquire.

14. Surely thou seest; for thou beholdest mischief and spight to requite it with thine hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee, thou art the helper of the fatherless.

15. Break thou the power of the wicked; and as for the evil man, search out his wickedness, until thou shalt find none.

16. The Lord is king for ever and ever; the nations shall perish out of his land.

17. Lord, thou heareft the defire of the humble; thou wilt uphold their heart, thou wilt incline thine ear.

18. To help the fatherless and poor unto their right, that the men of the earth be no more exalted against them.

PSALM XI.

Written under the perfecution of David by Saul.

1. IN the Lord put I my trust, how say ye then to my foul, " flee as a bird to the mountain.

2. "For lo, the wicked bend their bow, they " make ready their arrow upon the string, that "they may privily shoot at the upright in heart." 3. Surely their crafty designs shall be destroyed, for what hath the righteous done ?

4. The Lord is in his holy temple, the Lord's throne is in heaven; his eyes behold the poor; his eyelids prove the children of men.

5. The Lord proveth the righteous; but the wicked and him that loveth violence, his foul hateth.

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